Links, etc…Book tours, submitting practices, six questions
Ever wonder what it’s like to go on an unfunded 17-day poetry book tour to promote your new book? Me too! Keith Monstesano gives us a blow-by-blow here.
Do you submit your poetry like a girl? Well, stop it. See Kelli’s post here.
Want to ask Kitsune Books’ editor Anne Petty six questions?
I’ve got another tendon injury. This one I can walk with, though I can’t do stairs or curbs, so it’s not as bad as the previous one. Still, I am wondering which tendon spirits I have been angering lately?
I also got my first blurb in. It was beautiful. I feel so grateful to everyone who has ever taken a look at my second book manuscript, to Rene Lynch for permission to use the beautiful cover art, to people willing to say nice things about me and my writing on the back cover of the book, and of course, to the editors at Kitsune. A lot of gratitude.
Well, my dear readers, thanks for the well-wishes. I am feeling better, but I feel like I am falling behind in my poetry goals…Life has been intruding.
I have my parents in town for several days for the holiday, so I’m entertaining them, and I’m already neck-deep in grading and comments for my class (including several students who seem to never have been in a workshop before, which is weird, considering they’re MFA students, not high-school students or undergrads!) which I’m trying to do after my parents fall asleep, so basically the extra several seconds to breathe during the day…haven’t been spent writing or submitting.
But I am grateful for things. For my parents being alive and healthy and fun to be with, for my husband, for a mild winter and song sparrows. Today we went to Moonlight Beach and toured the huge flower fields in Carlsbad, taking picture after picture, even though the day was rainy and windy and chilly (well, chilly for San Diego.) I also helped my mom find a pair of jeans (she hasn’t been wearing jeans for years, and she looks great in them.) Doesn’t that sound like a day I should be thankful for?
I promise to post a poem again soon…
